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Looming Antarctic Krill Crisis As Fishing industry Grows
02.09.2010
Nature reports that Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), one of the Earth’s largest sources of protein, has come under stress as the rapid growth in krill fishing has been added to climate change as an extra threat to crustaceans. Whilst fish farms worldwide are increasingly depending on krill to feed fish,…
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IceCube Neutrino Observatory to be Completed in December 2010
31.08.2010
December 2010 should see the completion of the world’s first kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, IceCube, located beneath the surface of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Neutrinos are among the most abundant particles in the universe, and although they are formed by the most violent events in the universe, they have no charge,…
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Scientists to Study Seal Predation Habits in the Dark of the Antarctic Polar Night
31.08.2010
Scientists Randall Davis, Lee Fuiman, Terrie Williams and a team of researchers from Texas A & M University are heading to Antarctica in an effort to find out how Weddell seals behave and survive during the long polar night in Antarctica when there is little light available under the ice…
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Study of Sea-bed Colonies of Bryozoans Suggest Evidence for Trans-Antarctic Seaway
31.08.2010
Within the framework of a study for the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML), scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) had a look at sea-bed colonies of bryozoans. Analyzing these colonies, which stretch from coastal to deep-sea regions around Antarctica, the team found similarities in different species of bryozoans separated…
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Researchers Find Possible Answer to Antarctic Paradox
17.08.2010
Although the sea ice extent has been consistently receding in the Arctic, Antarctic sea ice has seen a slight increase in the past few decades. In a paper published in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology…
